Telling Our Stories Workshops to be Rescheduled Telling Our Stories: A Workshop for Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Violence has been postponed to a later date due to the Covid-19 virus. If you would like to be notified when Telling Our Stories will be rescheduled, please send your name and email using this form; write […]
Living in Place
When I’m Sixty-four
Paul McCartney was sixteen when he wrote “When I’m Sixty-Four.” He and John Lennon revised and recorded it for Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in 1967. Paul and John (as we called them) were twenty-five and twenty-seven, respectively. It’s John who added the line, “Grandchildren on your knee, Vera, Chuck and Dave.” When […]
April is National Sexual Abuse Awareness Month
In anticipation of National Sexual Abuse Awareness Month, Brooks Memorial Library, The Women’s Freedom Center, and The Commons are collaborating with writer and educator Deborah Lee Luskin in Telling Our Stories, a free writing workshop for survivors of sexual abuse and violence. Luskin will facilitate the workshop at the library on three Saturdays: March 14, […]
Telling Our Stories: Helping Survivors of Sexual Abuse
A year and a half ago, I received an outpouring of support when my story about both being sexually abused by my grandfather as a child and about Vermont Public Radio not allowing me to use the word “grandfather” to identify my abuser appeared in The Commons. I was also the recipient of many, many […]
Don’t Blame the Cows
Blame Processed Food Don’t blame the cows for fourteen-and-a-half percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions; blame the Americans who eat an average of three beef burgers a week. And don’t for a minute think that replacing hamburgers with Impossible Burgers or Beyond Meat is going to solve the problem. The problem is processed food. Vegan Burgers […]
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